Innovation
And Speaking of X-rays….
Several of you responded to my recent post on the subject with interesting information about the early use of x-rays.* This story caught my imagination for several reasons that will be obvious to those of you who are regular visitors here on the Margins: When World War I broke out in 1914, Marie Curie (already…
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X-Rays: Earlier than I Realized
Every book I write leads me down unexpected byways that inform what I write, and even what I think, but don’t actually appear on the page. In the case of Sigrid Schultz, I regularly found myself up against questions of technology. Often I pursued a technical question because I wanted to understand how Schultz and…
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From the Archives: Running on Railroad Time
In case you haven’t heard, I am still deep in book mode. May 1 approaches, and I am doing the revision hokey-pokey. (Put the right words in, take the wrong words out, but the right words, and you shake it all about.) While I turn myself around, here is a post for your amusement that…
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